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Monday, 2 September 2019

Monster: Vargouille

Monster: Vargouille

The vargouille is a low-tier extraplanar monster that probably will only be a challenge if summoned in large groups. However, their ability to trigger Fright Checks and turn creatures into vargouilles might be inconvenient.

Kiss (13): A
vargouille can kiss a target by making a successful unarmed attack against the
target’s unprotected face. An affected opponent must succeed on a HT roll or
begin a terrible transformation that turns the creature into a vargouille
within 24 hours (and often much sooner; roll 1d separately for each phase of
the transformation). First, over a period of 1d hours, all the victim’s hair
falls out. Within another 1d hours thereafter, the ears grow into leathery wings,
tentacles sprout on the chin and scalp, and the teeth become long, pointed
fangs. During the next 1d hours, the victim takes loses 1 IQ each hour (maximum
3). The transformation is complete 1d hours later, when the subject experiences
a heart attack and, if not resuscitated, the head breaks free of the body (which
promptly dies) and becomes a vargouille. This transformation is interrupted by
sunlight (it can delay death), but to reverse the transformation requires Cure Disease
at -3 or Remove Curse. Dispel Magic will not lift this effect.

Shriek: When
a creature hears the shriek of a vargouille, it must roll a Fright Check. If a
victim succeeds at his Fright Check, he will be unaffected by this ability for
one hour.

This poison is extracted from a vargouille. A
living victim must make an immediate
HT roll or suffer 1 toxic damage. Every hour for 3 more cycles he must make
another HT roll to resist or take the same amount of damage.